Billardiera rubens

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Family Pittosporaceae

Taxonomy: Billardiera rubens L.W.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (14), Benwell_2024 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (14), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 48 records in 9 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2015]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment (1); post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Benwell_2024; Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): andromonoecious (1); hermaphrodite (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 20 mm (20-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 47.5 mm (35-60 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 0.2 cm (0.2-0.2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): falcate (2); narrowly_obovate (1); obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2); toothed_dentate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); unlobed (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): climber (2); climber_woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): climbing (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	12	14	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NHNSW_2023	12	14	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Benwell_2024	4	4	A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.